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Usher, Maya; Barak, Miri – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
As the number of participants in online distance learning courses increases, peer assessment is becoming a popular strategy for evaluating open assignments and for breaking the social isolation surrounding distance education. Yet, the quality and characteristics of peer assessment in massive online courses has received little attention. Hence,…
Descriptors: College Students, Technology Education, Peer Evaluation, Student Projects
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Jardine, Hannah E.; Friedman, Lee A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
In this study, we describe a course to educate and prepare undergraduate "facilitators" for small group problem solving sessions in a large, first semester, introductory undergraduate organic chemistry course. We then explore the outcomes of the facilitator experience for one cohort of facilitators through qualitative analysis of written…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Undergraduate Students, Facilitators (Individuals), Science Instruction
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Engidaw, Berhanu – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
This study is on teacher trainers and teacher trainees' perceptions and practices of active learning and the constraints to implementing them in the English Department of Bahir Dar University. A mixed study approach that involves a quantitative self administered questionnaire, a semi-structured lesson observation guide, and qualitative in depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Student Teacher Attitudes, Active Learning
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MacGregor, Jean, Ed.; Cooper, James L., Ed.; Smith, Karl A., Ed.; Robinson, Pamela, Ed. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
This volume is a synthesis of interviews conducted with 48 teachers who are infusing their large classes (over 100 students) with small-group activities or are working explicitly to create student communities within large classes. The chapters are: chapter 1, "The Argument for Making Large Classes Seem Small" (James L. Cooper and Pamela…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Organization, Class Size, Large Group Instruction
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Mason, Diana; Verdel, Ellen – Journal of Chemical Education, 2001
Investigates the differences in academic achievement and performance for two groups of at-risk students in large and small group instructional settings when activity-based informal collaboration is applied as a teaching method. Includes 40 references. (YDS)
Descriptors: Active Learning, At Risk Persons, Chemistry, Higher Education
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Shneiderman, Ben; Borkowski, Ellen Yu; Alavi, Maryam; Norman, Kent – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1998
Describes the development and use of electronic classrooms at the University of Maryland College Park. Highlights include active individual learning; small group collaborative learning; class collaborative learning; classroom infrastructure; audio-visual support; courseware; empirical assessments; results of faculty surveys; and student feedback.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Electronic Classrooms
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the 11th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2014), October 25-27, 2014, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education